🔈 Nina talks with Arjun about his Web3 path and building on Ethereum, the original Connext mission of how to bring Ethereum to a billion people, the evolution and state of bridging, scalability/interoperability, the concept of roll-ups, how intents work and their importance in blockchains, the potential shortcomings of intents, what Connext is doing with intents, what Connext is today and what it’s trying to solve, historical glimpses of the internet, chain abstraction, Renzo’s protocol, bridge hacks, solving for security, Connext DAO, main challenges, the Connext team with Wonderland, roadmap with major protocol upgrade in 2024, AI thoughts & more….🔈

Highlights:

⚡️ About Arjun & Connext

⚡️ State of bridging

⚡️ Intents

⚡️ Chain Abstraction

⚡️ Hacks & Bridge security

⚡️ Thoughts on AI

⚡️❗2024 Protocol upgrade❗& more…

With You:

🎤 Nina Cerar, Blockchain Recorded Podcast (@ninacerar10) & Arjun Bhuptani (@arjunbhuptani)

Episode Links:

🔗 https://www.connext.network/

🔗 https://twitter.com/connext

🔗 https://twitter.com/arjunbhuptani

🔗 https://defi.sucks/

Disclaimer:

📄 We do not deal with financial or trading token elements nor offer any licensed financial services, such as investment or brokerage services, fund management, capital raising or investment advice. The content of this podcast is provided for information purposes only and is not to be used or considered as an investment recommendation or an offer or a solicitation to buy, sell or subscribe to any securities or other financial instruments.

🔈 Nina talks with Aly about his path to Web3, his multipolar view of crypto and blockchain tech from pre ICO era to 2024, legacy tech founders vs. Web 3 founders, traditional VCs vs. Web3-focused VCs, helpful pitch tools for founders, Blockchain FF practices and project selection process, bear vs. bull market proposal dynamics, blockchain pessimism, when do startups fail, what successful founders do, Blockchain FF investment focus, challenge with DAOs, favourable jurisdictions and regulatory landscape, Altered State Machine, further development opportunities (i.e. pet IDs), blockchain in gaming making sense, Web3 VC funding outlook, roadmap and more…🔈

Highlights:

⚡️About Aly

⚡️Blockchain FF

⚡️Web3 VCs vs. Trad VCs

⚡️Helpful pitch tools

⚡️Bull market dynamics

⚡️When do startups fail?

⚡️Altered State Machine

⚡️Web3 VC future & more

With You:

🎤 Nina Cerar, Blockchain Recorded Podcast (@ninacerar10) &Aly Madhavji (@aly_madhavji)

Episode Links:

🔗 https://blockchainff.com/

🔗 https://twitter.com/BlockchainFF

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/alymadhavji/

🔗 https://twitter.com/aly_madhavji

Disclaimer:

📄 We do not deal with financial or trading token elements nor offer any licensed financial services, such as investment or brokerage services, fund management, capital raising or investment advice. The content of this podcast is provided for information purposes only and is not to be used or considered as an investment recommendation or an offer or a solicitation to buy, sell or subscribe to any securities or other financial instruments.

🔈 Nina talks with Michael about an eclectic assortment of topics: who Michael is and his interest in Web3, views on financial injustices within corrupt government systems, the pace of innovation of an open system, international banking, co-founding De.Fi, the evolution and progress of the Web3 security space and user trends, AI impact on security, what risks De.Fi addresses, winning incentives and decision-making, regulatory outlook, banking system limitations, a shift from a unipolar to a multipolar world, experiences in UAE, global leadership and CBDCs, and more on the evolution and trajectory of De.Fi, the “antivirus” Scanner, the Shield and so much more…🔈

Highlights:

⚡️ About Michael

⚡️ Corruption views & Web3

⚡️ De.Fi & “antivirus” tooling

⚡️ Web3 Security Space

⚡️ Regulatory outlook

⚡️ Unipolar vs. Multipolar World

⚡️ Roadmap & more…

With You:

🎤 Nina Cerar, Blockchain Recorded Podcast (@ninacerar10) & Michael Rosmer (@MichaelRosmer)

Episode Links:

🔗 https://de.fi/

🔗https://twitter.com/defi

🔗https://www.youtube.com/c/OffshoreCitizen

🔗https://twitter.com/MichaelRosmer

Disclaimer:

📄 We do not deal with financial or trading token elements nor offer any licensed financial services, such as investment or brokerage services, fund management, capital raising or investment advice. The content of this podcast is provided for information purposes only and is not to be used or considered as an investment recommendation or an offer or a solicitation to buy, sell or subscribe to any securities or other financial instruments.

🔈 Nina talks with Kai about his path to Web 3 and Railgun, importance of data hygiene practices, the state of privacy in crypto and Web3, the role of AI in privacy, ZK tech, Railgun as a privacy protocol, chain deployment and usage, address shielding and regulatory implications, Private Proofs of Innocence (PPIs), Railgun use cases, NFTs, Railgun as a DAO and monetization, auditing, partner ecosystem, short term and long term roadmap, challenges and much more.

Kieran Mesquita is a prominent figure in blockchain and crypto, contributing to cutting-edge privacy and security technologies. His journey in the industry began with his work writing mining code for various cryptocurrencies, gaining deep insights into the underlying mechanics of blockchain systems.

He has worked on a cross-chain private DEX and a zero-knowledge voting system. Additionally, he has researched alternative Layer-1 technologies, developing a novel consensus algorithm and SNARK-based oracle system. Today, Kieran is a protocol architect, writing Solidity smart contracts and designing cryptographic systems for a secure and decentralized future.🔈

Highlights:

⚡️ About Kai

⚡️ State of Web 3 Privacy

⚡️ ZK Tech

⚡️ Railgun

⚡️ Private Proof of Innocence (PPI)

⚡ Railgun DAO

⚡ Roadmap & more…

With You:

🎤 Nina Cerar, Blockchain Recorded Podcast (@ninacerar10) & Kieran (Kai) Mesquita (@mesquka)

Episode Links:

🔗 https://www.railgun.org/

🔗https://twitter.com/RAILGUN_Project

🔗https://twitter.com/mesquka

Disclaimer:

📄 We do not deal with financial or trading token elements nor offer any licensed financial services, such as investment or brokerage services, fund management, capital raising or investment advice. The content of this podcast is provided for information purposes only and is not to be used or considered as an investment recommendation or an offer or a solicitation to buy, sell or subscribe to any securities or other financial instruments.

🔈 Nina talks with Klay about his TradFi banking background and bringing institutions to the blockchain space, working for Mike Novogratz, key barriers to advancing institutional adoption, public vs. private blockchains, Stability Protocol as a tokenless & feeless concept, permissioned validators and Proof of Authority, consensus mechanisms, public distributed compute network (PDC), Web 3 community feedback vs. enterprise, the Blockchain Trilemma, industry customers, Singapore’s IMDA milestone, electronic bill of ladings by 2030, Stability revenue model, challenges and more…

Klay is a global finance professional with a 15-year journey through J.P. Morgan, Credit Suisse, and AGF, finally entering the blockchain space in 2016. In 2021, he was hired by Mike Novagratz at Galaxy Digital to lead the West Coast and onboard banks and institutions into digital assets. In 2023, Klay co-founded Stability Protocol, the world’s first feeless, tokenless public blockchain network with the goal of removing the key barriers preventing global adoption of blockchain technology. Outside of blockchain, Klay is a 2-time figure skating gold medallist and proud dad of 3.🔈

Highlights:

⚡️About Klay

⚡Institutional adoption & entry barriers

⚡️Stability Protocol

⚡️Tokenless & feeless model

⚡️Public Distributed Compute Network

⚡️Customer milestone: Singapore’s IMDA

⚡️Challenges, roadmap & more…

With You:

🎤 Nina Cerar, Blockchain Recorded Podcast (@ninacerar10) & Klay Nichol

Episode Links:

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/klay-nichol-5b977318/

🔗 https://stabilityprotocol.com/

Disclaimer:

📄 We do not deal with financial or trading token elements nor offer any licensed financial services, such as investment or brokerage services, fund management, capital raising or investment advice. The content of this podcast is provided for information purposes only and is not to be used or considered as an investment recommendation or an offer or a solicitation to buy, sell or subscribe to any securities or other financial instruments.

🔈 Nina talks with Vijay about his path to Web3 and his interest in trading and arbitrage, VCRED and its purpose, cornerstones of DeFi and relevant terminology (the liquidity issue, arbitrage, exchange dynamics, CLOBs), VCRED’s AI liquidity layer, characterization of VCRED and its core products, deployment, the products’ users, main challenges, the world and financial consumer outlook in the 2030s, the issue of privacy, VCRED’s 2024 roadmap and much more.

Vijay has been in the Web3 space since 2019 from building prototypes in hackathons to leading VCRED. He is also a lead developer with over a decade of experience in software development for trading and automotive applications with a focus on Machine Learning. VCRED is a DeFi startup developed on Avalanche blockchain. Initially starting as an automated flashloan MVP, the product has evolved into an AI-powered liquidity layer.🔈

Highlights

⚡️ About Vijay

⚡️ DeFi cornerstones

⚡️ VCRED

⚡️ AI & liquidity layer

⚡️ Core products & users

⚡️ 2030s financial consumer outlook

⚡️ Roadmap & more

With You

🎤 Nina Cerar, Blockchain Recorded Podcast (@ninacerar10) & Vijay Lakshminarayanan (@vijayLN)

Episode Links

🔗 https://vcred.trade/

🔗 https://twitter.com/cred_v

🔗 https://discord.com/invite/vcred

Disclaimer:

📄 We do not deal with financial or trading token elements nor offer any licensed financial services, such as investment or brokerage services, fund management, capital raising or investment advice. The content of this podcast is provided for information purposes only and is not to be used or considered as an investment recommendation or an offer or a solicitation to buy, sell or subscribe to any securities or other financial instruments.

Nina talks to Laurent about co-founding Arthera, the subscription-based model approach, why Arthera is a Layer 1, the DAG protocol, Arthera’s position in Web 3, the Blockchain trilemma, no gas fee approach, overcoming adoption challenges, validator economics and incentives, designing Arthera and improving decentralization, bridging, Genesis block on Xmas day, mainnet, Arthera’s governance with the perpetual grant program, Arthera team, Arthera’s lifetime subscription offer without TX fees and more…

Laurent is a Co-Founder and CEO of Arthera, a Layer 1 EVM-compatible and DAG-based blockchain platform. He is also the Founder of the Web3StrongerTogether Initiative and a former TRON DAO Blockchain Advisor with rich experience in business strategy and development. [21.12.2023]. 

Highlights:

⚡️ About Laurent

⚡️ Arthera L1

⚡️ dSaas Subscription Management Platform

⚡️ No gas fee approach

⚡️Lifetime subscription offer!

⚡️Genesis block on Xmas day

⚡️ Roadmap & more…

With You:

🎤 Nina Cerar, Blockchain Recorded Podcast (@ninacerar10) & Laurent Perello (@PerelloLaurent)

Episode Links

🔗 https://www.arthera.net/

🔗 https://twitter.com/artherachain

🔗 https://twitter.com/PerelloLaurent

Disclaimer:

📄 We do not deal with financial or trading token elements nor offer any licensed financial services, such as investment or brokerage services, fund management, capital raising or investment advice. The content of this podcast is provided for information purposes only and is not to be used or considered as an investment recommendation or an offer or a solicitation to buy, sell or subscribe to any securities or other financial instruments.

🔈 Nina talks with Martin about his path to Web3, Q Protocol, the on-chain governance space, what is “proper governance”, use cases within DAOs, the “constitution”, the term “beyond code is law”, the theory of incomplete contracts, critical Q governance elements and root nodes, Q blockchain characteristics, the DeFi element within Q, the Q culture and team, Martin’s role, Q in practice with users, the protocol’s roadmap and more.

Martin is one of the initiators of the Q Protocol, a layer 1 blockchain that provides shared governance security for the Web3 world. Through its unique two-node architecture and constitutional governance framework, Q enables protocols to deploy sophisticated business models beyond code-is-law.

Martin has been in crypto full-time since 2017. Besides co-founding Q Development AG, a company focused on supporting the Q Protocol, he is the co-founder of Postera Capital, the company behind Europe’s first regulated crypto fund. Before discovering crypto, Martin had a career at the intersection of finance and technology. Among other things, he was the CFO of an online-only mobile service provider and a corporate finance consultant. Martin holds an MBA from IMD in Lausanne and a BSc in Business Studies from Bayes Business School in London. He is a CFA and CAIA charterholder.🔈

Highlights

⚡️About Martin

⚡️Q Protocol

⚡️On-Chain Governance

⚡️The Constitution

⚡️Beyond “Code is Law”

⚡️Q Blockchain

⚡️Roadmap & more

With You

🎤 Nina Cerar, Blockchain Recorded Podcast (@ninacerar10) & Martin Schmidt (@martin__a__s)

Episode Links

🔗https://q.org

🔗https://twitter.com/QBlockchain

🔗https://twitter.com/martin__a__s

Disclaimer:

📄 We do not deal with financial or trading token elements nor offer any licensed financial services, such as investment or brokerage services, fund management, capital raising or investment advice. The content of this podcast is provided for information purposes only and is not to be used or considered as an investment recommendation or an offer or a solicitation to buy, sell or subscribe to any securities or other financial instruments.